Ok... I am now back on net with this topic.
PTSD itself is not curable. Never has been, and nothing is jumping out at present for a near future cure. Never to say though, someone could discover it by accident or intentionally... time will tell. Where people get confused with PTSD, is that they assign PTSD itself to their trauma, in that if you heal your trauma, you must heal PTSD also. Well, it doesn't work like that. If you only had anxiety and depression, then healing your trauma would heal both the anxiety and depression, life would continue as you percieve it to be normal. Once PTSD is formed though, your life itself now involves a constant entity, being PTSD, regardless of past, present or future trauma, PTSD is now embedded.
If a person only develops certain symptoms with a trauma, no chemical imbalance has taken effect within their brain, hence you can cure all. Once a trauma or multiple traumas are present, if the brain chemically imbalances, all the healing in the world will not reverse the chemical imbalance between the right and left brain.
So... what occurs with undealt trauma is you have constant bouts of PTSD symptoms in various stages influence your life. If you heal the past trauma, the fear stimulated from the trauma itself is no longer present, hence PTSD becomes a much more approachable and manageable entity. Remember, once PTSD is present, it is seperate to all other occurences, because it is unique from trauma itself. If you no no fuel as such (past trauma) to feed the fire (PTSD), then the fire cannot burn productively, however; it still lingers as more a pilot flame instead. It impacts a little, but not much. The moment any aspect within your daily life is exposed to fuel (stress, another trauma, family death, etc etc) the fire can once again burn. How long it burns is purely based on your ability to implement your education off management upon the symptoms, ie. talk about the incident, discuss why, who, how, what if, etc etc, rid the fear as such, so the fuel burns out once again to a pilot light.
Each person is different, and the progress of their PTSD itself depends on the flame size at exposure. You can have mild PTSD for instance, easy enough to manage and continue life, but then if your partner or child died for instance, or close too death, possiblity, etc, that fear is then back within your mind, once again fueling the fire (PTSD). This can change your PTSD itself (the chemical imbalance) to further degrade and imbalance completely to severe PTSD (for example purposes). Now, not only do you have this fear you have to heal, you now have a newer, stronger range of symptoms you must also relearn, understand, educate and manage.
Now you have the most severe of what PTSD has, instead of your PTSD being capable of the stress of daily work, regardless what you do now, your PTSD is bad enough that simply performing the act of going to work is enough stress to overwhelm your mind, which overwhelms your body, which shuts you down and you end up back in bed. Regardless how much you try and learn, educate and manage your PTSD, you may never be capable to physically perform getting to a job again, because the daily stress incurred is now a new benchmark to set your PTSD symptoms off and give them some control once again.
Now, does this mean everyone with the most severe of PTSD will never work again? No, it simply means they could never work in a job that endures stress upon them individually. For example, many who have this level of PTSD, being the same level I have, could go and work with small children, as children are often found to be more therapeudic than a stressor, though to another they could be a stressor, hence once could work with small children, another could not. The one who could not, could work for themselves, something like a sole cleaning business, or computer work, where they have no boss, no stressor over them, deal with minimal people (stressors) within their day, and can happily and therapeudically work a day with no impact from PTSD. Some, will just never work again longer than an hour or two a day maybe, some not at all. It is an individual level of which each persons PTSD affects them uniquely, and no two are the same for all intensive purposes. We suffer the same symptoms, the same issues as a result, though no two are exactly the same as such, just like people, no two DNA are identical (that even applies to identical twins... similar, but still different).
